A Delhi sessions court has set aside, as a non-speaking order, a magistrate’s order that had refused to direct an FIR against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi over an allegation that her name was included in the 1980 electoral rolls before she acquired Indian citizenship in 1983. The court remanded the matter for a fresh, reasoned decision, while clarifying that a revisional court cannot itself order registration of an FIR. The allegations are untested.
